Apple again defends its reasons for abandoning iCloud CSAM scanning

Macworld
Early in 2021, Apple announced a suite of features meant to protect children from being sexually exploited online. Some are on-device, like parental controls that prevent child accounts from seeing or sending sexual photos in Messages, but the most controversial measure was a system to scan photos as they were uploaded to iCloud.
The system was meant to protect privacy by only comparing unique hashes of images to see if they matched the unique hashes of known CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Ma